granta 48: africa
November 23, 2003
All the prisoners here are indistinguishable from civilians; the government does not have the money to provide them with the prisoners’ uniforms. I asked on guard if the prisoners were ever tempted to escape, given that, once they did, they would look like any other man in the street. Escape? he looked at me with genuine incredulity. Here, he said, they get a bowl of soup. Out there they would be dying of hunger like everyone else. The prisoners, he stressed, are our enemies - that is true. But they are not idiots.
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